Around November 8, 1867

In this day and age, newspapers rarely print fiction. Of course, there is the occasional magical story written by a third grade class that appears every once a week in the Arts and Entertainment section of the paper, but for the most part, fictional stories of real substance are not published in newspapers anymore. This was not the case in the 1800's. Appearing in The Valley Star each week was...

It was a world are ruled by oppression and distrust, this was the south right after the Civil War took place. The south expressed many feelings of discontent and anger towards that reforms that the rest of the country made them take on as a result of the Civil War. In one article in the Bedford Gazette it speaks towards Congressional reconstruction and how it infringed upon the right of...

Considered the leading artistic talent of the South after the Civil War, Sidney Lanier published only one novel: Tiger-Lilies. Born and bred in Macon, Georgia, Lanier graduated from Oglethorpe University in 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. After finishing college, Lanier enlisted in the Confederate Army and was sent to the Virginia/Maryland area, into the heart of the battles....

In October of 1867, the Edgemont Select School for Young Ladies in Orange, Virginia, published an advertisement that young women could now begin enrolling for the next session of classes. According to this notice, tuition would be 250 for classes taught in the areas of the arts, music, and language. This announcement offers a glimpse into what the education of genteel women in the South during...

The issues discussed in the first issue of Harper’s Bazar are not different from concerns of twenty-first century women. The magazine cover of the first issue published on November 2, 1867, was quite different from the cover on stands today. When glancing at the cover, one realizes that unlike today’s format, the first issue’s format was similar to a newspaper design. The design of the...

Harper’s Bazar first issue opposes the general consensus that women's expensive spending habits are to blame for the decrease in marriage during the nineteenth century. The magazine took on the daunting task and discussed marriage in its first issue on November 2, 1867. The first issue contained several articles that discussed various concerns of nineteenth century women. But, its most controversial...

During the summer of 1867, a yellow fever epidemic infected the Gulf Coast of the United States, particularly in areas of Louisiana and Texas, leading to death of thousands. In Louisiana, New Orleans suffered greatly while Galveston, San Antonio, and Houston were three of the hardest hit cities in Texas. In both states, epidemics of yellow fever had been occurring for years. Indeed, from 1839...

Around May 10 1865, federal troops captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis fleeing in Georgia and sent him to be confined in Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Davis was held prisoner for two years from May 1865 to May 1867, six months of the time confined in a casemate under heavy guard. According to a war memo excerpted in a New York Times article, he was not arraigned upon any indictment or formal...

Under the second Reconstruction Act, state governments were required to have a constitutional convention in order to re-draft their documents with laws that would comply with the end of slavery and beginning of the rebuilding process. This would serve as an integral process when petitioning for re-admittance into the United States. While some states sought to comply as quickly and quietly as possible...

The Treaty of Medicine Lodge is among the last, most famous and most influential of the United States-Native American treaties. The treaty, or rather collective of three treaties signed at Medicine Lodge, Kansas in October of 1867, was a comprehensive peace settlement between the U.S. government and the Plains Nations of the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. Major provisions...